Sentences with phrase «system turns against»

Overview and Risk Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), is a condition that results when your dog's immune system turns against the lining of her gastrointestinal (GI) tract, causing an issue with the absorption of nutrients and ability to digest food properly.

Hashimoto's Disease, is an autoimmune disease, a disorder in which the immune system turns against the body's own tissues.

-- In Parkinson's disease own immune system turns against dopamine producing brain cells destroying them and causing dopamine deficiency.

autoimmunity A process whereby the immune system turns against its host.

This could help scientists understand autoimmune diseases, where the immune system turns against normal body tissues, such as in Type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis.

Lupus, or systemic lupus erythematosus, is a progressive, degenerative disease in which the immune system turns against itself, attacking a person's healthy tissue, cells and organs.

What's more, the studies suggest how our gut microbes make the immune system turn against nerve cells — a finding that could lead to treatments, like drugs based on microbial byproducts, that might improve the course of the disease.

Not exact matches

(a) Share of total Australian dollar assets (per cent), subcomponents are the share of liquid assets (b) While deposits with other banks are a store of liquidity, they do not contribute to the stock of liquidity held by the banking system as a whole, since the recipient banks will, in turn, need to hold additional liquidity against these deposits; consequently, they are excluded from this table (c) Includes Commonwealth Government Securities and securities issued by the states and territories (d) Includes notes and coins, Australian dollar debt issued by non-residents and securitised assets (excluding self - securitised assets)

One of the things that happens is a lot of startups get pulled into the system and that's unfortunate, because it turns out that when you've got this thing that's 18 % of GDP and you start following the money flows, you enter a market in one place with a very altruistic notion that I'm going to change things, and ask things morph, it turns out you're actually just helping the system get bigger and helping people collect, if you will, as a leach against the system.

In 1991, after bouncing against the rocks for three years, the ELCA did some modest restructuring (but not touching the quota system), and in an epilogue Trexler bravely ends on the note that maybe the boat is being turned in a more promising direction.

In the struggle against such a system, what is being proposed as an alternative is not the socialist system, which in fact turns out to be state capitalism, but rather a society of free work, of enterprise and of participation.

Thus instead of trying to construct a philosophical system which accords with the rule of reason, as Hegel had done, Nietzsche begins by turning reason against itself, uncovering in the process its «irrational» origins in nature («On the Genealogy & Morals,» BWN; Sections 2 and 16; WP, Sections 480 and 481).

An essential element of Hall's novel vision of the future is the idea that once technology has been fully established as a self - governing, self - sustaining system, a sort of «automatic rationality» with which we need no longer concern ourselves, we will be free to turn away from «actions over against nature,» to turn our attention «inward» to the sort of «actions» which enhance the aesthetic value of experience.

After Arsenal played so much better in the second half of the first Europa League group game this week, there will be Arsenal fans hoping that Arsene Wenger sticks with the system of playing a flat back four that he turned to after the sloppy first half showing against FC Cologne, but I think it would be a mistake.

Wenger turned our form back around with a formation change, opting to follow Chelsea and Tottenham in using a 3 -4-2-1 system, and we ended the season with the best form in the country, while winning the FA Cup final against the Premier League winners.

But in many cases one party — usually the one who is feeling most vindictive or who has tried to turn the children against the other parent — makes completely false and unsubstantiated claims of abuse as a way to «game the system.»

One is that the special components of breast milk give protection against exposure to viruses, which in turn leads to a stronger immune system.

He turned left after a 2014 Democratic primary against Zephyr Teachout, a law professor, and in his second term has raised the minimum wage, expanded tuition subsidies at public colleges, enacted a system of paid family leave and raised the age of criminal responsibility.

That is why so many of them have turned against the system in general, and against the Labour Party in particular.

The SDP turned out to be an electoral dead end, largely due to Britain's first past the post electoral system that works against new parties.

The constitutional amendment that would create the new redistricting scheme is on the ballot this fall, and some on the left are already muttering darkly about turning against the proposal, in the same way they're calling on Comptroller Tom DiNapoli not to «opt in» to the pilot public financing system.

Using infections to turn the immune system against cancer cells is a 100 - year - old technique.

Immune system defenses against dangerous bacteria in the gut can be breached by turning off a single molecular switch that governs production of the protective mucus lining our intestinal walls, according to a study led by researchers at Yale, the University of British Columbia, and the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Together, the two studies advance the idea that gut microbes play a role in turning the immune system against nerve cells, causing MS.. It will take a lot more work to develop cures or preventive strategies based on that, but the research raises the intriguing possibility of treating an often - devastating disease with something as low - tech as fecal transplants or probiotics.

Zola's immune system had turned its weaponry against the tumor after a call to action from a feverish infection.

Nine groups of bacterial genes turned out to be antiphage defense systems, and one system protected against plasmids, another source of foreign DNA, the researchers found.

When the researchers turned the CRISPR system against NDM - 1, they were able to specifically kill more than 99 percent of NDM -1-carrying bacteria, while antibiotics to which the bacteria were resistant did not induce any significant killing.

A VIRAL TRIGGER A reovirus (illustrated here) may jump - start celiac disease by turning the immune system against gluten, a new study in mice suggests.

A paper published in Nature today1 sheds light on how a vaccine can turn the immune system against the invading virus and so offer protection from infection.

Another one - third had other antibodies (known as antinuclear antibodies) that indicate the immune system is turning against the body.

So, for instance, should smaller, privately owned wells dry up, the masses that rely on them will only have the formal water sector to turn to, said Palaniappan, which will put even greater pressure on an already distressed system that's stacked against the least unfortunate.

This is a drawback for a major cancer treatment, immunotherapy, which turns the body's immune system against the tumor.

The immune system protects us from scores of invaders, but it can also turn against us when white blood cells called autoimmune T cells attack the body's own tissue.

Now researchers have achieved success in human patients with a ruse that turns the immune system against these growths.

These so - called broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) do little to help the people who produce them, but their existence indicates that mutations have created an increasingly diverse population of the virus, which in turn has pushed the immune system to evolve a response that is both more potent and works against more variants.

Antibody that blocks a «do not eat» flag on cancer cells turns the immune system against all tumor types

Researchers, however, can now screen drugs to find compounds that might activate cell death in senescent cells, he says, or that might turn the immune system against senescent cells.

Chen, also an expert in the processes by which genes are turned on and off, has pioneered cutting - edge organoid systems that recreate prostate tumors and will allow the team to much more easily test the activity of various drugs against tumors with specific mutations.

November 19, 2013 Staphylococcus aureus bacteria turns immune system against itself Around 20 percent of all humans are persistently colonized with Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, a leading cause of skin infections and one of the major sources of hospital - acquired infections, including the antibiotic - resistant strain MRSA.

It turns out that the combination of CRISPR and Cas (CRISPR / Cas) are actually a bacterial immune system — a weapon they use against viruses.

In the rare, life - threatening disease called paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), patients are stricken with chronic anemia and blood clots, when the oldest part of the immune system — known as complement — turns against its own red blood cells, or erythrocytes.

The age - associated decrease in functionality of the human immune system is thought to have a negative impact on the capacity to provide protection against infection, in turn leading to increased incidence of mortality.

For more than a century, researchers have believed that the body's immune system held vast potential to fight cancer, if only they could figure out how to turn it against the disease.

Along with checkpoint blockade antibodies, vaccines, and other immunotherapies, BiTEs are helping to turn our immune system into a powerful defense against this disease.

Crohn's disease acts like an autoimmune disease, essentially turning the immune system against a person's intestinal tract.

(That instinct to not press your face against the glass door while your lunch was cooking turns out to be right after all...) Additionally, the FDA requires two interlock systems that effectively offer backup security as well as a monitoring system that shuts the microwave down if one of the systems isn't working or if the door is opened during operation.

It turns out that the more microbial exposure we have at a young age — and the more diverse our microbiome — the healthier we are long - term, because all those microbes we encounter in our early years train and challenge our immune system to respond appropriately, whether that means taking action against toxins and harmful microbes or laying low when confronted with harmless allergens.

«Instead of the immune system fighting off things like infection and cancer, it turns against the individual and starts acting on their own organs,» says Gary Gilkeson, MD, professor of medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina.

First, the body might mistreat them as pathogens and therefore activate defense systems that would normally be turned off against harmful bacteria.

It is an auto - immune disorder, the body's immune system turned traitor against our bones and cartilage.